While Facebook does a great job promoting events, the social network does not have a stand-alone calendar management service like Google does. Fortunately, you can easily export events from Facebook to your Google Calendar. In this blog post, we will look at two ways to export Facebook events to your Google Calendar, one in the form of copying and pasting a URL and the other by downloading a Google Chrome browser extension.

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The government in Kunming, China has stepped in to have fake Apple stores shut down. The stores were not shut down because of piracy or copyright concern, but because the stores did not have an official business permit. About five fake Apple stores were opened that sold Apple products without authorization from Apple Inc. (NASDAQ:AAPL). The fake Apple store was discovered by an American blogger.

“Media should not misunderstand the situation and jump to conclusions. Some overseas media has made it appear the stores sold fake Apple products,” stated the Kunming government business bureau spokesman Chang Puyun. “China has taken great steps to enforce intellectual property rights and the stores weren’t selling fake products.”

According to the U.S. ITC, piracy in China costed U.S. businesses $48 billion and 2.1 million jobs in 2009. Apparently all five of the unauthorized Apple stores were selling genuine Apple products that were bought from authorized resellers. Apple has four genuine stores across China.

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LinkedIn Corporation (NYSE:LNKD) has announced a new feature called the “Apply with LinkedIn” button. LinkedIn is making it easier to submit your profile to any job application on the web by using a simple click. Some of the employers that have integrated the LinkedIn apply button include Photobucket, Netflix, and TripIt.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ:MSFT) has made an agreement with Attachmate’s SUSE unit. Attachmate, the parent company of Novell Inc., will be extending a collaboration agreement and patent protection deal with Microsoft. Microsoft will be paying $100 million on support certificates for SUSE Linux Enterprise. This helps customers run Windows and Linux servers. Attachmate and Microsoft agree not to sue each other’s customers for patent violations. Attachmate fully acquired Novell this past April. [GeekWire]

The HTC Status is currently the only device on AT&T that runs on Gingerbread. AT&T has confirmed that Android 2.3 (Gingerbread) will be integrated into their entire 2011 postpaid line of Android devices including the Motorola Atrix 4G and the Samsung Captivate. Below is the press release:

Quid is a quantitive analysis startup company that has raised $10 million in Series C funding from Atomico Ventures, SV Angel (Ron Conway’s investor fund), Founders Fund, Endeavour Vision, Infocomm Investments, and Charles Lho. PayPal co-founder Max Levchin joined Quid’s board of directors.

Squeaky Wheel Media has created a new social network designed for cancer patients, survivors and supportive friends and family, called I Had Cancer. The social network was founded by Mailet Lopez, Robert Boyle and Anthony Del Monte. TechCrunch reports that the site was created out of cancer survivor Lopez’s desire to create a blog of the same name, which then grew into the community network. The site uses mutual following like Facebook but with circles-like sorting like Google+, and allows users to search by categories like type of cancer or year diagnosed.

The HTC Salsa, also known as “the Facebook phone,” looks a little different when you get it from China. Specifically, the little dedicated Facebook button at the bottom of the screen is, in Chinese production models, replaced with a Weibo button. Weibo is a Chinese social network with, as Engadget reports, about 50 million active monthly users. [image via Sina]